Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

P De Frenne, J Lenoir, M Luoto… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forest microclimates contrast strongly with the climate outside forests. To fully understand
and better predict how forests' biodiversity and functions relate to climate and climate …

Advances in microclimate ecology arising from remote sensing

F Zellweger, P De Frenne, J Lenoir, D Rocchini… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2019 - cell.com
Microclimates at the land–air interface affect the physiological functioning of organisms
which, in turn, influences the structure, composition, and functioning of ecosystems. We …

Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates

G Murali, T Iwamura, S Meiri, U Roll - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme thermal events are increasing and are
projected to further increase by the end of the century,. Despite the considerable …

Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

P De Frenne, F Zellweger… - Nature Ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Macroclimate warming is often assumed to occur within forests despite the potential for tree
cover to modify microclimates. Here, using paired measurements, we compared the …

Exposure to climate change drives stability or collapse of desert mammal and bird communities

EA Riddell, KJ Iknayan, L Hargrove, S Tremor… - Science, 2021 - science.org
High exposure to warming from climate change is expected to threaten biodiversity by
pushing many species toward extinction. Such exposure is often assessed for all taxa at a …

Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change

BT Trew, IMD Maclean - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation More than half of Earth's species are contained in a mere 1.4% of its land area,
but the climates of many of these biodiversity hotspots are projected to disappear as a …

The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

BR Scheffers, L De Meester, TCL Bridge, AA Hoffmann… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Climate change impacts have now been documented across every
ecosystem on Earth, despite an average warming of only~ 1° C so far. Here, we describe the …

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

SL Lewis, DP Edwards, D Galbraith - Science, 2015 - science.org
Tropical forests house over half of Earth's biodiversity and are an important influence on the
climate system. These forests are experiencing escalating human influence, altering their …

Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming

SJ Cunningham, JL Gardner… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As global temperatures reach record highs, threats posed by climate change to biodiversity
become ever more severe. For endotherms, maintaining body temperature within safe …

[HTML][HTML] Forests and their canopies: achievements and horizons in canopy science

A Nakamura, RL Kitching, M Cao, TJ Creedy… - Trends in ecology & …, 2017 - cell.com
Forest canopies are dynamic interfaces between organisms and atmosphere, providing
buffered microclimates and complex microhabitats. Canopies form vertically stratified …